Overclocking has long been used to get the most possible performance out of computer components. With the release of AMD's HD 6800-series and NVIDIA's answering price drops on GTX 460 1GB cards, many people wondered how these competing products lined up against one another when overclocking was taken into account. In this article we drop light the overclocking fires under these GPUs and push them to their performance limits

In all honesty, the great majority of the results between the 6870 OC'd and the FTW OC'd are so close that IMO it would come down to availablility. The price looks to be around $10 - $15 premium for the FTW, but as a folder that'd be a premium I'd be willing to pay. At this price point, something like the FTW might be on my christmas list to replace the 275 in my main rig.

It'll be interesting to see what kind of clocks folks start getting out of reference clocked 460s vrs the premium OC versions. That'll let us know if there is much special binning going into the cards.

Any idea how far out Sapphire is from releasing their OC software SKYMTL?